Quotes About Concentration

Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as . . . as . . ." "Dead mice?" Reynie suggested. "Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice.

You get what you concentrate on…there is no other main rule.

THINK ABOUT COWS THINK ABOUT COWS THINK ABOUT COWS.

I believe in training alone—it develops better focus, reduces distraction and is good for the soul.

Today we are once again living in an era of extraordinary wealth concentrated in the hands of a few people, with the net worth of the wealthiest 0.1 percent of Americans almost equal to that of the bottom 90 percent combined.

I was determined to think about nothing, which never works, because a blank mind is an invitation to truth.

she had this look of calmness, of concentration, the look, I think, of all women who for the first time are with child and find that the world around them has become relatively unimportant.

There are few things more abrasive to the human spirit, even in Patagonia, than someone standing behind you chomping and sucking ice cubes.

Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to see it.

stability prevents daydreaming about 'what if...' and inserts us totally into what we are doing, causing us to live with a new intensity.

Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.

I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living now.

I'm alive. When I'm eating that's all I think about. If I'm on the march, I just concentrate on marching. If I have to fight,it will be just as good a day as any to die. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life is the moment we are living now.

If you concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. You'll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens...Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now.

Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. You'll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens, and that tribesmen fight because they are part of the human race. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now.

Sebab aku tidak hidup di masa lalu ataupun di masa depan. Aku hanya tertarik pada saat ini. Berbahagialah orang yang bisa berkonsentrasi hanya untuk saat ini. Akan kaulihat bahwa di gurun ini pun ada kehidupan, di langit sana bintang-bintang bersinar, dan suku-suku berperang karena mereka bagian dari umat manusia. Hidup ini akan terasa seperti pesta bagimu, suatu festival meriah, sebab hidup ini adalah saat yang kita jalani sekarang.

What made you fall in love with a prostitute?' I didn't understand it myself at the time. But I've thought about it since, and I think it was because, knowing that your body would never be mine alone, I had to concentrate on conquering your soul.' 'Weren't you jealous? 'You can't say to the spring: Come now and last as long as possible. You can only say: Come and bless me with your hope, and stay as long as you can.

Meditation is just gently coming back again and again to what's right here.

When we multitask and split up our mind into a million directions, we are actually creating our own suffering, because these habits strengthen strong emotional reactivity and discursive thought.

there is clearly a kind of anger that is healthy. It is the concentration of one's whole being in the determination: this must change.

Basketball isn't a game; It's an art form. You master the fundamentals so you can forget 'em, so you can improvise and just concentrate on what really matters: getting buckets.

If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.

I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.